Parviturbo

Parviturbo
Apertural view of a shell of Parviturbo fenestratus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Skeneidae
Genus: Parviturbo
Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945
Type species
Parviturbo rehderi
Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945

Parviturbo is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Skeneidae.[1]

Description

The very small, solid shell is perforate or has a narrow umbilicus. It contains a few convex whorls. The protoconch consists of one or two smooth whorls. The turbinate or globoso-conic shell shows numerous subequal spiral cords with in their intervals well developed or weak cross threads. The dentition of the radula is rhipidoglossate.[2][3]

Species

Species within the genus Parviturbo include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ^ Parviturbo Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 September 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Pilsbry & Olsson, Vitrinellidae and Similar Gastropods of the Panamic Province. Part I; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 97, (1945), pp. 249-278
  3. ^ Engl, K W, Parviturbo rolani n.sp.(Gastropoda: Skeneidae) from the Canary Islands; Novapex 2 p.141-143
  4. ^ Parviturbo alboranensis Peñas & Rolán, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  5. ^ Parviturbo dibellai Buzzurro & Cecalupo, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  6. ^ Parviturbo elegantulus (Philippi, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  7. ^ Parviturbo fenestratus (Chaster, 1896). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  8. ^ Parviturbo insularis Rolán, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  9. ^ Virginia Orr Maes (1967), The Littoral Marine Mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean); Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 119 (1967), pp. 93-217
  10. ^ Parviturbo rehderi Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  11. ^ Parviturbo rolani Engl, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  12. ^ Parviturbo weberi Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  13. ^ Parviturbo calidimaris Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  14. ^ Parviturbo francesae Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  15. ^ Parviturbo turbinus (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 April 2010.
  • Pilsbry H.A. & McGinty T.L. (1945). "Cyclostrematidae" and Vitrinellidae of Florida. I. Nautilus, 59(1): 1-13, pl. 1-2; II, Nautilus, 59(2): 52-60, pl. 6
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
  • Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
  • Rubio F., Rolán E. & Fernández-Garcés R. (2015). Revision of the genera Parviturbo and Pseudorbis (Gastropoda, Skeneidae). Iberus. 33(2): 167-259
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